Set a default assignee_id on dashboard actions when none is providedrs-default-dashboard-assignee

Prior, the dashboard would attempt to load _all_ issues or merge
requests across the entire instance. On one the size of GitLab.com, for
example, this would always result in a timeout.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/app/controllers/dashboard_controller.rb b/app/controllers/dashboard_controller.rb
index 280ed93faf8..7249938937a 100644
--- a/app/controllers/dashboard_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/dashboard_controller.rb
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ class DashboardController < Dashboard::ApplicationController
   before_action :event_filter, only: :activity
   before_action :projects, only: [:issues, :merge_requests]
   before_action :set_show_full_reference, only: [:issues, :merge_requests]
+  before_action :set_default_params, only: [:issues, :merge_requests]
 
   respond_to :html
 
@@ -39,4 +40,13 @@ class DashboardController < Dashboard::ApplicationController
   def set_show_full_reference
     @show_full_reference = true
   end
+
+  private
+
+  def set_default_params
+    return unless current_user
+    return if params[:assignee_id].present?
+
+    params[:assignee_id] = current_user.id
+  end
 end